jQuery vs Xajax
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
jQuery · Xajax · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
245
0
Open Page Rank 8+
5,631
8
Open Page Rank 7+
31,992
18
Open Page Rank 6+
74,247
28
Open Page Rank 5+
151,036
47
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
jQuery · Xajax · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,868,996
217
Japan
820,202
67
Germany
760,440
244
India
750,494
93
United Kingdom
627,325
145
France
602,656
163
Italy
522,636
137
Brazil
518,250
162
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | jQuery | Xajax |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 600 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.